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1883

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

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I went early to the House where we had a long debate on the Agricultural Holdings bill. I spoke and voted for it. Richmond was very keen for it, Salisbury spoke against it but did not vote, Elcho's speech was very dismissive, Carlingford's feeble.784

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 35 , December 2009 , pp. 343 - 344
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 2009

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784 The Tenants Compensation Bill, or Agricultural Holdings (England) Bill, rewarded tenants making improvements on their holdings by obtaining compensation from their landlords. Second reading, Hansard, CCLXXXII, Carlingford, cols 1796–1803, Elcho (Wemyss), cols 1803–1807, Richmond, cols 1818–1824, Salisbury, cols 1831–1835; Voting: Contents 55, Non-Contents 9. The bill was sent to the Committee of the Whole House.

785 Ibid., CCLXXXIII, cols 5–51.

786 Ibid., cols 439–447. After attending the debates on the bill, Carnarvon left for Canada on 22 August.

787 Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish writer and historian.

788 Froude, as Carlyle's literary executor, by the will of 1873 was given the task of writing the History of the First Forty Years of Carlyle's Life and History of Carlyle's Life in London. The first two volumes were published in March 1882 and the second two in October 1884. See Dunn, James Anthony Froude, II, pp. 471–480.

789 Charles Kingsley (1781–1860). His declining health and mental obsessions are described in Chitty, S., The Beast and the Monk: a life of Charles Kingsley (London, 1974), p. 225Google Scholar.

790 Henry Frederick Cowper (1836–1887), second son of 6th Earl Cowper, Lib. MP for Hertfordshire (1865–1885).